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Old 03-24-2011, 04:24 PM   #500
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Originally Posted by stonetools View Post
5.Nobody has really shown that the average reader is even aware of DRM, has been significantly inconvenienced by DRM , or has been significantly damaged by DRM. I agree that DRM doesn't stop piracy. We're focused on large scale casual sharing.The music industry gives us real world experience of what happens when people get used to passing around music files like candy. It ain't pretty for the music industry-50% fall in revenue with no end in sight.
Again, inf someone can show me WHY they think that large scale casual sharing wouldn't depress eBook sales, particularly of best sellers, I'm all ears. All I've heard is :
It won't happen. Honest, trust us.
As for the music industry, they have nobody to blame but themselves. They screwed up what was working. We had Napster 1.0 and with it a 6% increase in CD sales. So what does the RIAA do? They get Napster shut down. Then they decide it's a good idea to raise prices. Next, they decide to use unethical practices to take people to court and/or get their ISP to shut them down. People don't like the way the RIAA uses strong-arm tactics and raising the prices. The RIAA is at fault for this. They did things anti-customer and the customer fought back and screw the RIAA. The RIAA caused any drop in sales and increase in file sharing.

I casually share eBooks among family. I have no issue with this. In fact, I could legally share among 11 people. With one ADE account, I can have six computers and six devices registered. So in total, that's 12 people for one eBook. And to be honest, I do expect casual sharing among a household. So really, DRM does not stop casual sharing. It may limit how many people you can share with, but it won't make it 1 eBook to one person like the publishers want.
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